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Ismail Kadare
10 quotes
“Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And everything would be different, different.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I became familiar with literature before I knew freedom, so that it was literature that led me to liberty, not the other way around. Faith in literature and in the creative process brings protection. It generates antibodies that allow you to struggle against state terror.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against one another. Boiled down to little black marks. Hair, eyes, voices, nails, legs, knocks on doors, walls, blood, beards, the sound of horseshoes, shouts. All docile, blindly obedient to the little black marks. The letters run in mad haste, now here, now there. The a's, f's, y's, k's all run. They gather together to create a horse or a hailstorm. They run again. Now they create a dagger, a night, a murder. Then streets, slamming doors, silence. Running and running. Never stopping.”
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source